PREVIEW: Ukraine: Donbas: Wagner tactics: Conversation with colleague John Hardie of FDD re the small unit tactics used by the Russians against the undermanned Ukrainian frontline. More later.
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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| 0:29.8 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with John Hardy of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies |
| 0:36.7 | about the small unit tactics being used by the Russians on the Dunbar front. |
| 0:42.2 | In imitation of or derived from the |
| 0:44.4 | pre-Gosian tactics of the early in the war, the Wagner group. |
| 0:48.6 | Small units moving very fast, a breakthrough is then followed up with men on motorcycles or dunebuggies |
| 0:55.1 | bringing in drones and missiles to attack the opening and then exploiting. |
| 1:01.2 | Is John Hardy to explain? More of this tonight. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah, there's definitely similarities to what Wagner did. It's not exactly the same, |
| 1:11.6 | but yeah, you're typically seeing attacks especially in the |
| 1:16.1 | Picrops area lots of attacks with kind of smaller unit action so in below |
| 1:21.1 | company level often a platoon or less sometimes without armored fighting vehicles such as troops on on foot or with motorcycles or what have you. |
| 1:31.0 | On different parts of the |
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